I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.

Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.